Electrical and Computer Engineering

APPROACHES FOR POWER GRID MANAGEMENT AND ANCILLARY SERVICES WITH DC-AC MICRO-GRIDS COMPRISING OF PV FARM AND HYBRID ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM

Doctoral Candidate Name: Aniket Mohan Joshi Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: February 16, 2021 – 11:00 AM Defense Location: Webex Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Sukumar Kamalasadan Committee Members: Dr. Valentina Cecchi, Dr. Madhav Manjrekar, Dr. Craig Ogle Abstract: The emergence of the concept of DC grids comes from the fact that […]

Intelligent Network Management for Heterogeneous Services in Mobile Edge Computing

Doctoral Candidate Name: Qiang Liu Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: December 1, 2020 – 1:00 PM Defense Location: Virtual Webex Meeting: https://uncc.webex.com/uncc/j.php?MTID=mb3d0d71414f36eef036e7594a89ac7df, Password: uncc@2020 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Tao Han Committee Members: Dr. Shen-En Chen, Dr. Yu Wang, Dr. Jiang (Linda) Xie Abstract: The proliferation of connected devices creates various use […]

Enhancing Distribution Planning Methods To Facilitate High Growth Distributed Energy Resources

Doctoral Candidate Name: Wesley O. Davis Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: December 1, 2020 – 10:30 AM Defense Location: Online Zoom Meeting, Join Zoom Meeting, https://uncc.zoom.us/j/99371803400?pwd=QXhBM1AySUNBY1paZWY3RFhvUlRuQT09 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Sukumar Kamalasadan Committee Members: Dr. Yogendra Kakad, Dr. Valentia Cecchi, Dr. Maciej Noras Abstract: Climate change is one of the most […]

Design and Analysis of Active Isolation in Power Converter Systems

Doctoral Candidate Name: Clint Halsted Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: November 13, 2020 – 12:00 PM Defense Location: EPIC 2344 Committee chair’s Name: Madhav Manjrekar Committee Members: Babak Parkhideh, Robert Cox, Brigid Mullany Abstract: This dissertation presents a new class of power converter topologies that realize galvanic isolation by utilizing active […]

Distributed Messaging System for the IoT Edge

Doctoral Candidate Name: Anjus George Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering Defense Date and Time: November 5, 2020 – 1:00 PM Defense Location: Virtual Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Arun Ravindran Committee Members: Dr. Hamed Tabkhi, Dr. Chen Chen, Dr. Asis Nasipuri, Dr. Nenad Sarunac Abstract: Recent advances in Deep Learning have made possible distributed multi-camera IoT […]